Ellen Hopkins
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| Ellen Hopkins | |
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| Born | March 26, 1955 Long Beach, California, United States |
| Occupation | Novelist, Poet |
| Genres | Young adult |
| Spouse(s) | John Hopkins |
| Children | Jason, Cristal, Kelly, Orion |
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Ellen Hopkins (born March 26, 1955) is an American novelist currently residing in Carson City, Nevada.[1]
Hopkins was adopted to Albert and Valeria Wagner when they were 72 and 42, respectively. [2] She wrote her first poem, published in the Palm Springs Desert Sun, when she was nine. She attended high school in Santa Ynez Valley and went on to study journalism in at the University of California, Santa Barbara before dropping out to start a family and a business. When that marriage failed, she sold her business and began freelance work. She had three children (Crystal, Kelly and Jason) remarried to her current husband, John Hopkins, and adopted a child, Orion.
Hopkins had a daughter who was a very bright girl with a lot of potential, but she got addicted to meth, or "crank." This daughter inspired her to write the book "Crank," which was meant to express the horrible influences of drug abuse and addiction.
"Think twice. Then think again." ~Crank
She has published several verse novels on teenage struggles, including Crank, Burned, Impulse and Glass. Glass is the sequel to Crank. Her book Identical came out on August 26, 2008. She is currently finishing up her novel, Tricks, about teen prostitution, due out in summer 2009. Next, she announced she would be working on a third Crank novel, titled Fallout, due out in 2010. She loves her home state and her adoptive parents, and though she says she has met her birth parents before, she'll always love the ones who raised her. She also considers her fifth grade teacher to be the first person to encourage her to become a professional writer.[3]
[edit] Bibliography
Crank (October 2004)
Burned (April 2006)
Glass ( August 2007)
Impulse (August 2007)
Identical (August 2008)
Flirtin' With The Monster (May 2009)
Tricks (August 25 2009)
Fallout (2010) sequel to Crank/Glass
Perfect (2011)
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